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  • A Small Boy Came Home From School And Went ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 24, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,423 views

    A small boy came home from school and went straight to his room to pray. His mother had never seen her son do this, so she listened outside his door. She heard him praying softly and then saying, "Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo", loudly. She went into his room and asked what he was doing. He responded that he ...read more

  • Statistics: Our Kids Every Day: 1,000 Unwed ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 866 views

    Statistics: Our kids Every day: 1,000 unwed teenage girls become mothers - 1,106 teenage girls get abortions - 4,219 teenagers contract sexually transmitted diseases - 500 adolescents begin using drugs - 1,000 adolescents begin drinking alcohol - 135,000 kids bring guns or other weapons to school ...read more

  • He Flies Underneath You

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
     | 2,372 views

    HE FLIES UNDERNEATH YOU You see, when a mother eagle has her eggs, she sits on them to keep them warm and waits for them to hatch. then she goes back and forth and finds food for them. But there comes a time when she decides these little guys have to learn to fly. So she stirs up the nest and ...read more

  • The Bible Leaf

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Mar 29, 2009
     | 4,247 views

    THE BIBLE LEAF A little boy opened the big family Bible at home. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it closely. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mamma, ...read more

  • The Rhino Calf Was Taking A Drinking At The ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
     | 1,549 views

    The rhino calf was taking a drink at the water hole. The tiger leaped at it. Soon the calf would have been ripped to shreds. But the mother rhinoceros charges out of the tall grass and drives the tiger away with her horn. "He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant ...read more

  • To Realize The Value Of One Year, Ask A Student ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 26, 2010
     | 2,584 views

    To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the businessman whose flight was delayed an hour. To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the man who had ...read more

  • Why Do You Ask?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
     | 1,684 views

    WHY DO YOU ASK? A vicar was walking along the road when a lady stopped him and this question. "Vicar" she asked. "What do you think about cremation?" Without hesitation the vicar replied, "You know the scriptural principle don't you?" "No" the lady replied. "You bury treasure but you burn ...read more

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 15, 2011
     | 1,641 views

    YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN... • You hear your favorite song on an elevator. • You watch the Weather Channel. • You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore. • You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren't wearing any. • When you say something to your ...read more

  • Telling Lies

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 19, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,534 views

    TELLING LIES A grandmother was looking after her two little grandchildren, a 7-year-old girl, and a 5-year-old boy. Both of them had been really naughty. But as the time approached for their mother to pick them up, the little girl said to her grandmother, "Are you going to tell Mummy?" The ...read more

  • Helping Him Cry

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 5, 2012
     | 2,265 views

    HELPING HIM CRY Man once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a 4 year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went ...read more

  • If He Gets Loose

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 20, 2013
     | 3,175 views

    IF HE GETS LOOSE The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mic. Unlike todays wireless mics, this had a wire attached to it. He was an energetic preacher and as he preached, he swung his hands and he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mic cord as he went. Then he moved to one side, ...read more

  • One Of The Most Influential Christians Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,991 views

    One of the most influential Christians who exhibited “Grace Living” and touches lives as powerfully today as he did in the late 1700 and early 1800’s is John Newton, the writer of “Amazing Grace.” His own evaluation of himself was, “a wretch who was once lost but then was found, saved by amazing ...read more

  • Paul Harvey Told About A 3-Year-Old Boy Who Went ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 20, 2001
    based on 318 ratings
     | 3,855 views

    Paul Harvey told about a 3-year-old boy who went to the grocery store with his mother. Before they entered the grocery store she said to him, "Now you’re not going to get any chocolate chip cookies, so don’t even ask." She put him up in the cart & he sat in the little child’s seat while she ...read more

  • As We Begin This New Series On The Bible I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2001
    based on 100 ratings
     | 4,976 views

    As we begin this new series on the Bible I thought I’d share some Biblical Bloopers with you. These are s-lightly skewed scriptural insights from children of Christian and Jewish faiths: - In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, God got tired of creating the world, so he took the Sabbath ...read more

  • Many Years Ago I Went To See A Theatrical ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Tyas on Jan 7, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,912 views

    Many years ago I went to see a theatrical production called Cotton Patch Gospel, a musical about the life of Jesus with an Appalachian, country-western twist. It was based on Clarence Jordan’s paraphrase of the New Testament, by the same name. It tries to tell the story of Jesus as if he has been ...read more

  • The 5-Year Old Had Been Missing All Night. When ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Apr 27, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,354 views

    The 5-year old had been missing all night. When his mother had looked out yesterday afternoon, she no longer saw him playing in the yard as he had been doing fifteen minutes earlier. Had he been abducted? Had he wandered off? Soon she and her husband, the neighbors and the police were all ...read more

  • Most Children Are Not Naturally Aggressive. There ...

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Jun 9, 2003
     | 2,221 views

    Most children are not naturally aggressive. There are times when children might seem demanding, impatient or even perhaps unreasonable. They do not usually push themselves into the being the center of attention. I once read the story about a tiny boy who was seated at the dinner table in his high ...read more

  • 65279;a Young Man Grew Up In A Rough Boston ...

    Contributed by Craige Lebreton on Dec 5, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,304 views

    A young man grew up in a rough Boston housing project called Columbia Point in a family of nine children. Although he’d been a hardworking student, paying for college seemed impossible. But his mother’s favorite expression was. "Pray, and the Lord will make a way somehow." He viewed that as ...read more

  • Paul Harvey Told About A 3-Year-Old Boy Who Went ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,743 views

    Paul Harvey told about a 3-year-old boy who went to the grocery store with his mother. Before they entered the grocery store she said to him, "Now you’re not going to get any chocolate chip cookies, so don’t even ask." She put him up in the cart & he sat in the little child’s seat while she wheeled ...read more

  • Albert Tomei Is A Justice Of The New York State ...  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 22, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,977 views

    Albert Tomei is a justice of the New York State Supreme Court. A young defendant was convicted in his court for gunning down another person, execution style. The murderer had a bad record, was no stranger to the system, and only stared in anger as the jury returned its guilty verdict. The ...read more